JJLehto wrote:
That's fair but he also says none of that, just lumps it all under "leftism" which is of course clearly just "socialism" and thus "communism"  I just found it odd he correctly notes some issues but puts it all under leftism. Most people dont disagree with much of that, or even what he said. But he was being a bit loony. I can read between his lines, saw it many many times before. It was basically all the "if it's not strict 19th century laissez-faire it's big government socialism and all authoritarianism is leftism" Thats why I was getting annoyed, its lazy and wrong |
Yeah, agreed. That complaint is all the more ironic because the welfare state was appended to a market economy to keep socialism at bay. Outside USA, nobody would describe Obama as a socialist.